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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4036475" data-attributes="member: 22424">There are plenty of things that I would change about 3.5e to produce my 'ideal' game. Some of these are quite minor, while others are very significant. Some of them are being addressed by 4e, but often in ways I just don't like.Unfortunately, the net effect of all of these changes is that the whole game would need fairly carefully re-balanced, and that's not an amount of work that I really want to go through. It's pretty much a new system by the time I'd be done with it... and then my group's resident power-gamer would probably break it within half an hour.Some of the highlights, though:- Re-balance for per-encounter play. And no mix of at-will/per-encounter/per-day powers, since I fully expect that to just move the fight/rest cycle from "we rest when the Cleric is out of healing" to "we rest once we've used all our per-day powers".- Remove the need for the 'big six'. Some of these bonuses should be inherent to the character; some should just be removed. I'm inclined to keep armour +X and weapons +Y, though, since they're just so iconic.- Remove the battle-mat. Sure, 3.5e doesn't require the mat for play, but it generally works better with it. At this point, I would prefer a game that works better without the mat.- Each character will have a Mana Pool (I'd call it something else, though). Each class would give out some Mana at each level, modified by the character's Cha. Mana is then used to do "anything impossible", be that casting a spell, using a class feature, or activating a magic item. In general, characters will start encounters with half their maximum Mana, and will need to use almost all of it to cast their most powerful spell. Of course, casting that spell will usually be an encounter-winner, so there's a trade-off there - do you cast weaker spells for the duration of the combat, or do you spend time gathering Mana before firing the big gun?- Conveniently, the Mana pool also allows me to solve the "save or die" problem - spells such as petrification can attack a character's Mana, and take full effect once it is exhausted.- Pull in saves-as-defences, second wind, combat advantage, the bloodied condition, and a few other things from 4e. Pull in the condition track from SWSE.- Ability damage remains, but as with hit point damage it does not impact on a character's effectiveness until any attribute hits 0. Instead, a character who takes any ability damage moves down the condition track.There's more, but this post is too long already.</blockquote>

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